Due to the fiercely positive competition, NVIDIA's next-generation graphics cards have been reluctant to show up. Currently, the fastest time to watch is until August. During this period of time, Huang boss repeatedly castrates Dafa and comes up with Few strange products.
such as, GTX 1060 6GB cut into GTX 1060 5GB specifically for Internet cafes, GT 1030 removed GDDR5 memory and cheaper DDR4, GTX 1050 4GB cut a knife into GTX 1050 3GB.
You think this is over? Next we will see a GTX 1060 6GB.
The GTX 1060 6GB has long since been available, Pascal architecture GP106-400 core, 1280 stream processors, core frequency 1506-1708MHz, with 192-bit 6GB GDDR5 memory, equivalent frequency of 8GHz, single 6-pin power supply, typical whole card Power consumption 120W.
and The new GTX 1060 6GB was actually castrated on the GTX 1070 8GB. - The latter was originally a GP104-300 core, 1920 stream processors, core frequency 1506-1683MHz, with 256-bit 8GB GDDR5 memory, equivalent frequency of 8GHz, a single 8-pin power supply, a typical card power consumption of 150W.
After moving the knife, GTX 1070 will be cut off 640 stream processors, 64-bit 2GB memory, and the core acceleration frequency is slightly increased, the overall specification is completely on par with the GTX 1060 6GB.
In other words, The future GTX 1060 6GB specification does not seem to change, but in fact there will be two 'hearts', one is the original GP106, one is castrated GP104.
As for the power consumption of the castrated version of the GTX 1060 6GB, it is still uncertain and theoretically slightly higher, but the difference should be small.
So, why does NVIDIA shield a high-end card from being sold to a relatively low-end card? This is not yet known. Is it more inventory of GP104 chips?
